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    Quote Originally Posted by MadMojoMonkey View Post
    This is not a mathematical error or a measurement error, it is intrinsic uncertainty in the nature of observable qualities.
    Yes! And what have I been saying?

    To say that the uncertainty is inherent in nature is to say that our ability to observe is complete.
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    Quote Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla View Post
    To say that the uncertainty is inherent in nature is to say that our ability to observe is complete.
    No, it does not follow. You misunderstand one of the primary lessons of QM. Read up as much as you can on the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. Read what motivated it, the fervent opposition to it, and the experiments that have confirmed it.

    You will see that the more and more complete our observations become, the more and more they support the inherent uncertainties in QM. The act of observation will never be complete, but the observation-based uncertainties are limited more and more over time.

    Currently, the uncertainties based on observation are orders of magnitude less than the uncertainties predicted by QM. The QM uncertainties dominate the total uncertainty, and are as predicted.

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